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Dist:0.2km north<br/>Possibly the smallest of the dumbles to be formally named on the 1:25000 map.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.2km north<br/>There is a footpath (clearly not heavily used) across this field which still shows the traces of ridge and furrow cultivation.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km north<br/>Patterns created by rolling the tilth.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.3km north<br/>
©JThomas
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©JThomas
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This view shows the signpost in its relation to the road layout. The second junction is still a short way behind the photographer.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The finger for Lowdham and Nottingham points straight across the fields. In practice, the fingerpost serves two distinct T-junctions about 50 metres apart, rather than providing two separate ones.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>
©Tom Courtney
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A late 17th century brick building.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>An attractive example of Victorian ironwork at The Hermitage, Gonalston.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Looking down from the footpath up onto Barker Hill.
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Looking across to Barker Hill
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Showing the building alongside Gonalston Lane. See also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/449191 .
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.5km north<br/>The Tablet above the Door reads: "Gentlemen, as you pass by, pray on this shoe cast your eye. If it's too strait we'll make it wider. Twill ease the horse and please the rider. If lame by shoeing (as they sometimes are), you can have them eased with the greatest of care." Dedicated to my wife, Jodi. (She is descended from a line of Blacksmiths.)
©Ian Paterson
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Probably early 19th century.
©Alan Murray-Rust

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